Economic theory has recently begun to consider the economic impact of narratives. Narrative economics can also be extended to the analysis of the economic-political effect of narratives in the context of the European core-periphery divide, which intensified after the European sovereign-debt...

Where is Europe headed? : an introduction / Bruno Dallago, Gert Guri and John McGowan -- The European project : moving forward with dry eyes / Steven Rosefielde -- The EU in stormy seas : beginning of the end or end of the beginning / Klaus Gretschmann -- Signalling imbalances in the EMU /...

pt. 1. Transatlantic linkages -- pt. 2. The crisis and policies: a transatlantic perspective -- pt. 3. Institutions, rivalry, and the consequences for democracy -- pt. 4. The European currency and transatlantic relations.